Radio: Harvest Moon

To modern bobby-soxers, her name means next to nothing. But it is sweetly nostalgic news to folks in their forties that a trim, silver-haired, fiftyish, blues singer next week begins a new radio show—her first in twelve years.

Youngsters may be puzzled by Ruth Etting's unsubtle singing of the old songs she made famous (Ten Cents a Dance, Love Me or Leave Me, Shine On, Harvest Moon). Her straightforward style is a far cry from the slick and silken whisperings of the younger generation's favorite song pluggers. But to their parents and their uncles...

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